News from December 2021
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton looks forward to welcoming visitors this winter. Learn to plan like a park ranger by following our list of the Top 10 Tips you should know before visiting the park. Limited services and seasonal road and wildlife closures make a winter visit far different than a summer experience. Plan ahead, recreate responsibly, and help ensure this iconic landscape may be enjoyed by future generations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy M. O’Shea, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Marcus Catchings, 43, of Chicago, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to five years in prison for possessing 500 grams or more of cocaine with intent to distribute. Catchings pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 14, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Rocky Mount man was sentenced yesterday to 65 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and distributing fentanyl, heroin, and cocaine. On Sept. 17, 2021, Cedrick Charles Williams pled guilty to Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced a Bergen County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for distributing and conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, company today admitted its role in price gouging a chain of New Jersey grocery stores in connection with the sale of KN95 masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Bob Martin | Dec 8, 2021
There are some in the community who have gone above and beyond working towards an emission-free environment, and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Federal Energy Management Program recently recognized them with the 2021 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Many Tennesseans are in the process of repairing and rebuilding from damage caused by Aug. 21 storms and flooding. FEMA mitigation experts encourage residents in the areas affected by the disaster to make some fairly simple changes to their homes to reduce damage from future severe storms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement after the Committee voted to advance five bipartisan bills to the full House of Representatives...
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the passage of three China-related bills on the house floor, including two Uyghur-related bills and a Resolution to guarantee the safety and freedom of tennis star Peng Shuai.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Whitehall, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to five years and four months (64 months) of incarceration, to be followed by three years of supervised released on his conviction of violating federal firearms and explosives laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Tamara Browning | Dec 8, 2021
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has recently commended, through peer review, a handbook on human health assessments by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: In the last week, three women who were alleged to have applied for and received almost $800,000 in Paycheck Protection Program loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the CARES Act have pleaded guilty in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today helped advance the nominations of two key Biden administration nominees, who will serve at the U.S. Department of Commerce. The nominations will head to the floor for final confirmation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM SKINNER and DORIAN BROOKS, a/k/a “Kool-Aid," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges relating to their involvement in the murder of Efren Cardenas on Feb. 10, 1989, in Brooklyn...
By George Willis | Dec 8, 2021
Republicans continued to raise a ruckus but they couldn’t keep Rachael Rollins from advancing as President Joe Biden’s nominee to be U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Defendants allegedly used material nonpublic information for stock trading that generated at least $4 million in profits.
By Emily Bevard | Dec 8, 2021
Boone Logistics Services LLC, a Florida-based logistics solutions provider, reportedly shortchanged the wages of 31 yard hostlers at its Texas distribution center, claiming they had not been entitled to overtime pay for their work.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A former Mexican police officer was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Jude Egbufoama, a/k/a Chino, age 37, of Beltsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud, in connection with two separate fraud schemes.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s efforts to achieve a carbon-pollution-free electricity sector by 2035 and meet the Energy Act of 2020’s goal of permitting 25 gigawatts of renewable energy on public land by 2025, the Bureau of Land Management today auctioned utility-scale solar...
